# Lazy buggers at the Post Office

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-buggers-at-the-post-office/382833>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 4, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-buggers-at-the-post-office/382833 "2006-12-04T17:46:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-buggers-at-the-post-office/382833/101 "2006-12-12T17:18:40Z")

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BBC Ceefax reports that 15 **million** items of mail are lost, stolen or damaged every year and that the customer are not always seen as absolute priority.

Well I’ll be…

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-buggers-at-the-post-office/382833/102 "2006-12-12T17:21:49Z")

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[QUOTE=lissener]  
I might be labelling new videos to put on the shelves, or **balancing last week’s register drawers** , or whatever.  
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When I worked at a video store, we had to balance the drawer at the end of each shift, and all of them had to be done before the supervisor left at the end of the night. That way the oncoming manager could make the deposit before the store opened the next day. Why would you wait a week to balance a cash drawer?

[QUOTE=lissener]  
As comic-opera as this is getting, the bottom line–my obscured point–is that “lazy” is more due to your, the customer’s, perception, than to the actual facts of the situation.  
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Yes, that is my perception.

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-buggers-at-the-post-office/382833/103 "2006-12-12T17:26:31Z")

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[QUOTE=EvilAsh]  
Oh, and since that was my very first pit posting ever (I don’t hang around here much): Mother-fucking, goat-felching window clerks. Total fucktards. Fuck.  
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Good save, asswipe. 😉

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